Two days after a train suddenly plowed into a parade float, killing four war veterans, the city of Midland, investigators and the victims’ families began what likely will be a long, painful recovery. The truck that served as the parade …
The National Transportation Safety Board says trains that collided head-on last month in the Oklahoma Panhandle weren’t speeding at the time of the wreck. Three Union Pacific employees died in the June 24 accident near Goodwell. Another worker jumped to …
Federal investigators want to know why a freight train streaking across the Oklahoma Panhandle failed to pull into a side track and instead charged down the main line and collided head-on with another train approaching from the opposite direction. Three …
Three Union Pacific crew members remain missing after two trains collided in the Oklahoma Panhandle, causing a white-hot fire that emergency crews are struggling to extinguish. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph says the fire near Goodwell is contained but …
Union Pacific Railroad and the family of a man killed in a Blue Earth County train crash have reached a legal settlement. Attorneys say Union Pacific has agreed to pay $650,000 to the family of Todd Ziegler. He and another …
Two busy passenger trains collided head-on near an Amsterdam park, injuring scores of people including more than 50 seriously, a police spokesman said. Later reports indicated that one person had died. National Police Corps spokesman Ed Kraszewski told Amsterdam local …
The judge deciding how to divide $200 million among victims of a deadly Los Angeles County train crash in 2008 says it will fall far short of all the requests he received. Attorneys for the victims had requested between $320 …
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